Datepicker href Problem

If you click on a day TD in the latest version of the datepicker with Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer will cheerfully process the onclick attribute on the TD ... and then go on to process the default action of the A tag inside the TD, which is to navigate to the href ("#"). This might not be an issue for many sites, but for a Javascript-heavy "thick client" page, which relies on the anchor for navigation, it's a real problem.

This can be fixed simply by changing this line of the date picker's code (inside its _generateHTML method) from:

'" href="#">' + printDate.getDate() + '</a>')) + '</td>'; // display selectable date

to:

'">' + printDate.getDate() + '</a>')) + '</td>'; // display selectable date

or, if you want to preserve the href attribute (I think some validity checkers expect A tags to always have an href) you could instead use:

'" href="javascript:void(document.close())">' + printDate.getDate() + '</a>')) + '</td>'; // display selectable date